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\"MauriceLEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Maurice Manning, an award-winning Kentucky poet, will give Transylvania\u2019s fall convocation, \u201cThe Moral Vision of A World Lost,<\/em>\u201d in Haggin Auditorium Sunday, September 12 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cA World Lost,\u201d a novel by Kentucky author Wendell Berry, is this year\u2019s First Engagements: A Community Book Project selection. First Engagements is a program for first-year students to get an introduction to the high standards of a liberal arts education at Transy through small-group discussion and analysis of a text. Many upperclassmen, faculty and staff also read the books and join the discussions that take place the first week of class.<\/p>\n

Manning has published four books of poetry, most recently \u201cThe Common Man.\u201d In 2009 he was awarded the Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Manning teaches at Indiana University, in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is a regular faculty member for The Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Ky. <\/p>\n

His first book, \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions,\u201d was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 2000. Manning’s second collection of poetry, \u201cA Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c.,\u201d was published in 2004 by Harcourt. His poems have appeared in \u201cThe New Yorker,\u201d \u201cShenandoah,\u201d \u201cThe Southern Review,\u201d \u201cWashington Square,\u201d \u201cGreen Mountains Review\u201d and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Maurice Manning, an award-winning Kentucky poet, will give Transylvania\u2019s fall convocation, \u201cThe Moral Vision of A World Lost,\u201d in Haggin Auditorium Sunday, September 12 at 7 p.m. \u201cA World Lost,\u201d a novel by Kentucky author Wendell Berry, is this year\u2019s First Engagements: A Community Book Project selection. First Engagements is a program for first-year students to get an introduction to the high standards of a liberal arts education at Transy through small-group discussion and analysis of a text. Many upperclassmen, faculty and staff also read the books and join the discussions that take place the first week of class. Manning has published four books of poetry, most recently \u201cThe Common Man.\u201d In 2009 he was awarded the Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Manning teaches at Indiana University, in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is a regular faculty member for The Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Ky. His first book, \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions,\u201d was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 2000. Manning’s second collection of poetry, \u201cA Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c.,\u201d was published in 2004 by Harcourt. His poems have appeared in \u201cThe New Yorker,\u201d \u201cShenandoah,\u201d \u201cThe Southern Review,\u201d \u201cWashington Square,\u201d \u201cGreen Mountains Review\u201d and elsewhere. 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